Kirk Hamilton's discussions

It depends. The biggest factor on timing is probably how far in advance we’re able to get a game, because it’s important that the writer doesn’t feel rushed. It’s very easy as a reviewer to wind up resenting a game for dragging out its ending when you’ve miscalculated how much longer you needed to finish it. It’s… Read more

I dunno, Jason and I did a whole podcast about how Nintendo was bumming us out and I feel like we wind up raging about Virtual Console stuff almost every episode. I’d say we complain about Nintendo a fair bit! To answer your last question, no, we don’t really take potential blacklisting into consideration when… Read more

Yeah, and I’m actually surprisingly good with that. A year ago I felt attached to my characters and progress, but these days I’m ready for a fresh start. Read more

I am pretty psyched for Gravity Rush 2. I’m assuming that’ll be fall? If Persona hadn’t been delayed, then my answer would’ve been Persona. I’m also looking forward to Dishonored 2. Read more

It really depends on the size of the woodchuck. I’ve always felt this question doesn’t provide enough context for an informed reply. Read more

Klepek wins, because he is the only one of the three that actually exists. Also I have a sneaking suspicion he’s a surprisingly scrappy fighter. Read more

I’ve been using Nvidia stuff for a while. Their cards are generally good but I’m still a little annoyed by how you have to “choose”—I bought a Gsync monitor a little while back and now I feel like I’ve bought into their ecosystem and couldn’t switch if I wanted to. Read more

I’m gonna nominate Portland? Portland is pretty good. I live across the street from a food cart that literally only sells breakfast sandwiches. Read more

Fair. The trailer only mentions Oculus, so I would assume this is them making good on their earlier promise to add support for the Oculus 1.3 SDK. (They haven’t mentioned SteamVR as far as I know, so I’d imagine that at least for the time being it’ll be Oculus only.) I get why it’s frustrating not to know the… Read more

It really is. Read more

Yeah I heard the white wolf thing and was like.. Read more

Yeah, Djawadi outdid himself with the score for this ep. Killer stuff during that opening sequence—when that piano motif came in I half thought they were gonna start playing a pop tune? Like, Chris Martin starts singing Read more

“Welp.” - Mace Tyrell Read more

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Excellent. Totally posting this today, thanks man! Read more

Actually I think it might’ve been “Seriously, Sony?” Pretty sure that’s what I said Read more

Okay “yelling” is an overstatement. I made a scrunched up incredulous face and said, “Seriously?” Read more

Yeah, I watched that and started yelling when they cut away. I didn’t have capture running anyway, but it was a really cool demo. I bet they upload the whole thing at some point. Read more

hey man she was just excited about video games, we’ve all been there Read more

For some reason the RSS was taking forever to update. (Maybe it was watching Game of Thrones.) Should be current now. Read more